London Magazine Enlarged and Improved, Volume 28C. Ackers, 1759 - English essays |
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... thofe infects . The fol- lowing night we took up our quarters in a house inhabited , but not free from mofchitos ; though in much less numbers I failed on Thursday night from than before . On informing our hoft of St. John's Road ; the ...
... thofe infects . The fol- lowing night we took up our quarters in a house inhabited , but not free from mofchitos ; though in much less numbers I failed on Thursday night from than before . On informing our hoft of St. John's Road ; the ...
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... thofe parts : He has alfo hundred thousand people had been mar- acquainted me that he would order the facred in the ... thofe of the Upper Saxony , Lower Saxony , and Weftphalia , on the north : Thofe of Auftria , Bavaria , and Swabia ...
... thofe parts : He has alfo hundred thousand people had been mar- acquainted me that he would order the facred in the ... thofe of the Upper Saxony , Lower Saxony , and Weftphalia , on the north : Thofe of Auftria , Bavaria , and Swabia ...
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... thofe counties ; and the merchants con- B farmers would all be ruined in a few cerned in the export trade , not finding years , and the landholders , at last , forced any thing in Kent that they could export , to reduce the rent of ...
... thofe counties ; and the merchants con- B farmers would all be ruined in a few cerned in the export trade , not finding years , and the landholders , at last , forced any thing in Kent that they could export , to reduce the rent of ...
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... thofe islands with proviñons ; and even pretend to a right to do fo , with- out being restrained or interrupted by us . From the year 1697 therefore , the French and we continued joint posses- fors of the island of St. Chriftopher's ...
... thofe islands with proviñons ; and even pretend to a right to do fo , with- out being restrained or interrupted by us . From the year 1697 therefore , the French and we continued joint posses- fors of the island of St. Chriftopher's ...
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... thofe things which are in themfelves bad , as dram drinking , chewing tobacco , fitting up late at night , fleeping immediately after dinner , morning bets , as they are called , & c . when by long ufe they have unhappily grown fa ...
... thofe things which are in themfelves bad , as dram drinking , chewing tobacco , fitting up late at night , fleeping immediately after dinner , morning bets , as they are called , & c . when by long ufe they have unhappily grown fa ...
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Page 261 - The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a thick wood, and the mouth, which opened into the valley, was closed with gates of iron, forged by the artificers of ancient days, so massy that no man could, without the help of engines, open or shut them.
Page 562 - By the list of disabled officers (many of whom are of rank) you may perceive, Sir, that the army is much weakened. By the nature of the river the most formidable part of this armament is deprived of the power of acting, yet we have almost the whole force of Canada to oppose. In this situation, there is such a choice of difficulties that I own myself at a loss how to determine.
Page 261 - All the diversities of the world were brought together, the blessings of nature were collected, and its evils extracted and excluded. The valley, wide and fruitful, supplied its inhabitants with the necessaries of life, and all delights and superfluities were added at the annual visit which the Emperor paid his children, when the iron gate was opened...
Page 415 - North-America for the expences incurred by them in the levying, cloathing, and pay, of the troops raifed by the fame, according as the aftive vigour and ftrenuous efforts of the refpeftive provinces fliall be thought by his majefty to merit, — • 2.
Page 561 - Townshend and Murray were to have attacked ; and it is probable that, if those...
Page 414 - To replace to the finking fund the like fum paid out of the fame, to make good the deficiency on the...
Page 558 - If I was the judge of the point of honour of the company's officers...
Page 415 - India company, towards enabling them to defray the expence of a military force in their fettlements, to be maintained by them in lieu of the battalion of his majelty's forces, commanded by Col.
Page 261 - The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast shook spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground. All animals that bite the grass, or browse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered in this extensive circuit, secured from beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them.
Page 417 - ... consist of tickets of the value of ten pounds each, in a proportion not exceeding eight blanks to a prize ; the blanks to be of the value of...